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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Farley Thinks Midwest Safe for Roosevelt Sloan Urges Industry to Save Nation Crisis in Europe Is Approaching. By EDWARD W. PICKARD j Wemtrn Newitpaper Union. POSTMASTEIl OKNKKAI. FA It-MOY, It-MOY, In IiIh cnpai'lty (if clutlr-. man of the IieiiiiK'nitic nnliona! committee, culled that Imdy to meet in Washington Washing-ton January 8, whin arrangements will he made fur the convention of UK'.fi nnd the place of that gathering e-iM'ted. e-iM'ted. He told the correspondents that the cldef hldders for the convention wotdd he I'hlladel- phla, Chicago, St. J.A.Farley ,(iuls K.m(i.lg (.,t, and San I'Vanehsco, and denied the report that the llrst named city already iiad heen decided upon, lie said he thought tlie highest hldder would he select'd, provided It had adequate convention hall and hotel facllllles. Stories that Senator Donahey of Ohio or some one else would he given second place on the ticket Instead of Carner were laughed at by Mr. Karley. lie asserted that there was no douht ahout the re-nomlnatlon re-nomlnatlon of (Junior for Vice President. Pres-ident. Asked ahout the two-thirds ride, lie said the committee might recommend Its iihandonnient. hut that any change was t lie business of the convention. Commenting on the Literary Digest poll, which shows a majority In the Middle West stales voting against the Itoosevelt New Deal, Farley said : "So far as the poll relates to sentiment In the Midwest states, like Iowa, It is KKl per cent wrong." lie Insisted that the President was very strong, not only In that section sec-tion of the country, hut In every part. "The President will carry as many states next year as lie did in V.r.2," said Farley. Itoosevelt carried nil except six states at that time. Farley said he helieved Itoosevelt would win the electoral vote of Pennsylvania, one of the states that voted for Hoover In l!)l!2, and that also there was a good chance of carrying New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, another of the Hoover states. JAMHS M. CUKLKY, governor of Massachusetts, was the original "Itoosevelt for President" man of New England and, though he has broken wdth some Democratic leaders of his state, he Is still an ardent supporter of the national administration. Therefore he has decided to he a candidate next year for the senate seat now held by Marcus Coolidge. "I have made up my mind," he said, "to go to the United States senate to he part of the movement move-ment to change the economic conditions condi-tions of the country to provide for social security." Senator Coolidge had not Indicated Indi-cated whether lie will seek re-election. A I.FRKP P. SLOAN. .TH.. presl-dent presl-dent of General Motors corporation, cor-poration, was the chief speaker at the annual dinner of the Congress of American Industry Indus-try In New York, and lie made an earnest plea to Industry In-dustry to save the country from bureaucracy bu-reaucracy and possible pos-sible socialism. Industry should lead the nation away from the fallacious fal-lacious theory of nlentv "to ornnmto plenty ro promote the general welfare A' P' sloan' Jr-of Jr-of all the people," Mi Sloan told the nation's leading manufacturers. Should big business fail to accept this "broader responsibility." it will bring, he said, the "urge for more and more interference from without government in business." Mr. Sloan conceded the gravity and the extreme importance of problems of today the paramount necessity o. charting, a sound course for the "long future." He advocated advo-cated : "1 Reduction in the real costs and selling prices of goods and services. "'- A more economic balance of j national Income through policies affecting af-fecting wages, hours, prices and i profits." j The meeting of the congress was held in conjunction with the fortieth , annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, and j the speakers before that body were j as emphatic in their condemnation i of the economic policies of the administration ad-ministration as was Mr. Sloan. President C. U I'ardo said: "Whether "Wheth-er we like it or not, industry has : been forced In sheer self-defense to enter the political arena or be destroyed de-stroyed as a private enterprise." j General Counsel J. A. Emery de- ' clared: "This gathering Is a call j to arms. j "The sentry call should rouse the i armies of Industry to repulse tlie force of the alien theory that chal lenge our political Institutions anil economic system within our own household." Itohert I,. I.und, chairman of the hoard, said: "The New Dealers have been forced to desert some of their boldest experiments. Tills has come to pass because the American people peo-ple have demanded a return to common com-mon sense and sound business. American Industry has taken tlie leadership in this combat." rjMJIiOPEAN diplomats, especially ' the British and Premier Laval of France, are exceedingly -clever and resourceful, but If they are to extricate their nations na-tions from the present threatening state of affairs they will need all their smartness. Though decision as to tlie Imposition of tin oil embargo against Italy was postponed until December De-cember 12 to give Lava! a chance to conciliate M u s s o- Sir Samuel llni, the duce re- Hoare fused to make any gesture toward peace. Italians were authoritatively authoritative-ly warned not to mistake diplomatic diplomat-ic exchanges between their premier and the representatives of Great Britain and France as "peace talk," and were told there was no reason to believe Mussolini had modified his minimum terms already presented pre-sented to Sir Eric Drummond and Laval's representative. Also he has declined further to conciliate Britain Brit-ain by removing more troops from Libya nnd has repeated his warning warn-ing that he will consider an oil embargo em-bargo an unfriendly gesture. He and all Italians are especially resentful re-sentful against Great Britain, which apparently intends to insist on the oil ban. And now they are getting very sore at France, despite Laval's efforts 'to maintain friendly relations rela-tions between the two countries. There were reports that Italian troops were being massed along the French frontier. One more rather desperate move for peace was made in Paris when Laval gave Italian Ambassador Cer-rutl Cer-rutl a "set of suggestions" which were said to be the last word from France and Great Britain before the applying of tlie oil embargo, due on December 12. These suggestions were said to be based principally on an exchange of territories between Italy and Ethiopia, the latter to receive re-ceive its long-sought seaport and to remain absolutely Independent, save for the lands granted to Italy. The feeling in Rome was pessimistic, pessi-mistic, and there was noted a general gen-eral tightening up of home defenses. Troops that had been expected to depart for tlie Ethiopian front were being retained in Italy, and the orders or-ders to tlie naval and air forces were suggestive. New economic measures to resist tlie sanctions were being put into effect daily. The British government was engrossed en-grossed with the troublous situation. situa-tion. Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary, received timely orders from bis physician to take a rest In Switzerland, and It was announced an-nounced be would stop in Paris for a conference with Premier Laval. The admiralty was preparing for eventualities and ordered ollicers of the royal navy reserve to report at once for duty at Plymouth. These men have been serving as ollicers and engineers in tlie merchant marine. ma-rine. All members of the League of Nations, Including Italy, are exceedingly ex-ceedingly anxious to know what will be the course of the United States concerning tlie oil embargo. GEN. IIO YING-C11IN, Chinese minister of war, was sent to Peiping by Dictator Chiang Kai-shek to try to check the northern auton- Pi J r i - : l- A oniy movement. Delegations from the Autonomy Promotion Pro-motion society called on him and mobs shouted autonomy au-tonomy slogans outside out-side his ollice. and then tlie Japanese army ollicers took tlie matter in hand. Lieu t. C o I. T a u Takabaslii. militarv Ho Ying-Chin mI;u.he n ami an otiicer of the Japanese garrison gar-rison called on General Ilo and ordered or-dered him to leave the city at once. Takaiiashi told tlie war minister: "Tlie Japanese army is convinced your continued stay in Peiping can only complicate matters." MaJ. Gen. llayao Tada. Japanese commander In north China, said: "War between China and Japan is certain if China breaks the agreement agree-ment signed last July in which Nan king agreed not to send troops into Hopei province." At tlie same time Japanese war planes were living low over Peiping. C F.CR2TAUY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE announctMl the corn-hog corn-hog program for 1!K!(; o7. Designed to maintain a balance between tiie interests of the producer pro-ducer and tlie consumer, con-sumer, tills new plan will permit a ,'iU per cent increase in hog production next year over liKT, thus preparing tlie way for possible reductions re-ductions In pork prices to the housewife house-wife ; and to re- strict corn acreage Secy Wallace tQ a,)()Ut ,x,mmi0 acres, an Increase of about 1,400.-000 1,400.-000 acres, over the amount harvested harvest-ed this year. After appraisal by community committees and review by county allotment committees, a corn acreage acre-age base and a market hog base will be fixed. Co-operating producers must agree to plant corn next year on at least 25 per cent i f their base acreages. They will bj permitted per-mitted to retire from 10 to 30 per cent of tiieir base acreage for soil-improving soil-improving or erosion-preventing purposes. Hog growers must agree to produce between !j0 and 100 per cent of the base market production. produc-tion. The 10.1G corn adjustment payment pay-ment will be Mo cents a bushel on the appraised yield times the adjusted ad-justed acreage, less tlie pro rata share of local administrative expenses. ex-penses. A payment of $1.25 per head will be made on each hog in thi base. Deductions will he made at the rate of $2..ri0 per bead If a producer fails to raise 50 per cent of bis base numbers. Tlie 1037 rates will be announced by November 30, 1!)3C, but tlie rate on corn will not be less than 30 cents per bushel and the rate on hogs will not be less than $1.25 per head. BRITISH, Irish and Canadian delegations del-egations opened conversations In Washington with American olli-cials olli-cials looking to the establishment of transatlantic air mail and passenger pas-senger service. It was believed this could be accomplished as soon as reciprocal pacts are signed to allow al-low the landing of American planes on foreign soil. Heretofore this lias heen blocked by the jealousies of foreign aviation Interests. The delegation from Great Britain Brit-ain is headed by Sir Ronald Bands, director general of the general post ollice. He is accompanied by C. E. Woods Humphrey, managing director direc-tor of Imperial Airways, Ltd. Postmaster General Farley announced an-nounced that he would ask congress at the coming session for funds to start an air service between the United States and Europe. Experimental Experi-mental flights would be made next summer and the route opened in the following year. ONE hundred thousand Democrats, Demo-crats, mostly Georgians, gathered gath-ered in the stadium of Georgia Tech at Atlanta for a homecoming and heard President Presi-dent Roosevelt deliver de-liver a characteristic character-istic speech, full of confidence, assurance assur-ance of prosperity and praise for what the New Deal has accomplished. And be did not neglect to attack warmly the critics of his administration. In i reviewing the' eco- President nomie nnd social Rvelt advances since his inauguration he gave out what was considered the keynote for his campaign for reelection, re-election, and definitely announced his candidacy unnecessarily by asserting that life in tlie United States has Improved In tlie last two and a half years nnd will continue to improve "if I have anything to do wirh it." Mr. Roosevelt promised that lavish lav-ish government spending was over and that the nation could look for ward with assurance to a riecreas ing deficit, ami asserted that the government credit Is higher than that of any other great nation. H-bitterly H-bitterly criticized tlie treasury poll cies prior to his entrance into the White Mouse, traced the relief poli cies as opposed to doles and de clared that the peak of appropri ations has passed. poon news for the building In dustry. President Green of the American Federation of Labor gives out the word that there will he n more jurisdictional strikes among construction workers. The factions in the building trades department of tlie federation have found a plan to prevent workmen from delaying construction by strikes over which o' two organizations should do a particular piece of work. In tiie future the contractor I tc decide which union shall iln tlie jolt when a dispute arises, and then if a joint committee of the unions in volved is unable to adjust the difference dif-ference tlie iiuestii i. is to be re ferred to a federal judge as irhiler SECRETARY OF STATE HUL1 sent to Loudon the usual polin reminder tiiat tlie seini-aiinii.il -wa debt installment from Creat P.ritai, was due on December lo. Ami. als. as usual, the British governiiien sent to Mr. Hull the reply that ui der l!ie ci rcil lust a aces it woiMdn' pay a cent. Well, we were no countiiii: on ettim: this money to Christmas spending. |